October 1st, 2009

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Sweet Potato Superfood

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

They are a superfood, right!? Fried or not…?! Sweet Potato fries, oh how I love thee :)

I am EXHAUSTED! Finally home and ready for bed! My first day of school was fun though! Campus is soo beautiful! I also love the feeling of being engulfed in a place where everyone is expanding their minds:) And red square was full of different companies giving out free food/drink products!!

After work I was so exhausted that we decided to grab some food at our fav bar and grill down the road. I got a large house salad with the dressing and cheese on the side, as well as an order of sweet potato fries!

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ps: both of these bowl/plates were alot bigger and deeper than they look! I was stuffed! I even got a bite of the boys apple pie:)

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Free Drinks!!!

Good night bloggies! Sorry for the quickie post, but a girls got to get her sleep for anoother day of school!!

xo,
D

Pilates

Thursday, October 1st, 2009

Sorry I didn’t post last night! I had dinner and then started BAKING and realized I HAD to get to bed I have class at 10:30am and always need extra time in the morning of my first day of the quarter to find my parking space and classes!! Work last night was awesome by the way! (4-8pm).

During one of the hours the studio was empty, except a mat class in the back room. One of the women that works the front desk Saturday came in to workout so I joined her and did the entire intermediate reformer series plus a couple of advanced exercises!! I hadn’t worked out in SO long (since last week!) I started doubting myself on the order of things when I know that I know it!! Anyway, being able to do Pilates ALWAYS uplifts me, and there is some sort of amazing euphoric feeling that comes with doing the reformer without an instructor. However, not having worked out with an instructor in a while has been frustrating. Working at the studio, we get free Pilates with the apprentices who are being trained at the studio to become teachers themselves. My most recent instructor already graduated the program and became certified!!! However, that left me with no teacher because all of the NEW apprentices can only teach Beginning workouts right now. I have worked out alone a couple of times, but having somebody there adjusting and pushing you the whole time makes for such a different type of workout! Also, the only things I can do alone are the Reformer and Mat because I still don’t have a very comprehensive understanding of how the Wunda Chair and Wall Unit work. I will take pictures at work of the equipment to show you guys! (if I am allowed to)

OOOkay on to last nights eats. I came home and was pretty hungry so I grabbed a carrot to snack on while I figured out what to eat! (the boy calls me a bunny) On nights when I get home from work late, my boyfriend and I just kind of go with the flow of our hunger. He gets hungry before I get off work, and while I use to come home and make dinner for us at 8:30pm, we have both learned that it takes to long and is just too stressful that late at night! I started by putting a leftover tortilla pizza-quarter (from my grandma’s earlier) in the oven at 350, and I used the new rack my mom gave me and it came out SUPER crispy!!

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I made a collard wrap! I added this amazing tahini sauce I made to dip raw falafel into, but it is good on anything! I will have to share my rendition of the recipe!!

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To my wrap and pizza I added a sweet potato with ketchup + Tabasco and a yellow bell pepper and cherry tomatoes!!

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This was fun to eat! Little yummy tastes of everything!! Well it’s 8:15am now, (I woke up early for all my sweet readers! Thank you, it means SOO much to me!) and I have to get ready for school!! Today is going to be a LONG day! I should be able to blog a little bit between classes! And I have some very fun posts coming up for you guys!!

Here is a preview of my baking adventures: (recipes to come!!)

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Oh and I almost forgot, here are my packed snacks for school/work! I will not be home until after work tonight!!

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half of a yellow bell pepper, 1/2 cup of cherry tomatoes, 1/2 cup of grapes, and a huuuuge green apple!! Plus one of my all time favorites:

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have a wonderful day everyone!!!!!

xo,
D